The best eSIM for Turkey in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Turkey, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $12.99, the cheapest 10 GB, which to buy.
Prices read on 26 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Turkey plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for the trips people book to Istanbul, Cappadocia and the coast, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $12.99 or 30 days at $21.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $24.50 for one week and $69 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $13, and it was €11.40 on sale on its own site the day we looked. 20 GB is $20.
Ubigi: Cheapest 10 GB, tied with Nomad. 10 GB for 30 days at $13 on Türk Telekom and Turkcell. Its app and site do not open from inside Turkey, so install before you fly.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, and no daily cap stated for your own phone. $27.50 for a week. Sharing the connection is limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets or unlimited days; Nomad Buckets or unlimited days; Ubigi Buckets, unlimited, or monthly; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $11.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad No 3-day plan; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $24.50; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; 5 days $18.99; Nomad No 7-day plan; 5 days $17; Ubigi No 7-day plan; 8 days $22; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $12.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $69; Holafly $73.90; Saily $71.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi $64; Ringo Light $21.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $15.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $15.99; Nomad $13; Ubigi $13; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $12.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $22.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $22.99; Nomad $20; Ubigi 25 GB $25; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $21.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily 5 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Nomad 2 GB a day, then slower; Ubigi 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo Türk Telekom; Holafly Turkcell, Türk Telekom; Saily Turkcell or Vodafone TR; Nomad Türk Telekom; Ubigi Türk Telekom, Turkcell; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi Monthly plans do; Ringo Light No, one payment; the trip ends when it ends.
App needed: Airalo Recommended; Holafly Optional; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi Yes for top-ups; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Unlimited is where the prices split. Airalo, Holafly and Saily all charge about $25 to $29 for a week in Turkey and about $70 for a month. Ringo Light charges $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews. For a short trip it is a different story: Ringo Light no longer sells 3 days, and Airalo at $11.50 and Holafly at $11.90 are the cheapest 3-day plans here.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps until the next day. Saily and Ubigi give 5 GB a day. Nomad gives 2 GB a day. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Ringo Light has no speed cap: the 2 weeks starts with 10 GB at full speed and the 30 days with 20 GB, and when you have used 80% we add 10 GB once and charge the $12.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $25.98, a heavy month $34.98, still under Airalo and Holafly for the month.
Nomad, $13 for 10 GB. Cheapest 10 GB in the table, tied with Ubigi, and €11.40 on sale on its own site the day we looked. 20 GB is $20. Add-ons top it up.
Ubigi, $13 for 10 GB. Same price, on Türk Telekom and Turkcell with 5G. One catch: the Ubigi app and site do not open from inside Turkey, so buy and install before you land.
Airalo, $15.50 for 10 GB. The biggest name, a 1 GB plan from $4, and its Merhaba plan rides Türk Telekom. Refunds for a wrong purchase come back as Airmoney credit, not cash.
Saily, $15.99 for 10 GB. Cleanest app of the five, and a 20 GB bucket at $22.99. You pay for the app and the Nord account.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $12.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $21.99. If you need 10 GB to last a whole month, Nomad or Ubigi at $13 is the better buy, and Nomad sells 20 GB at $20, $1.99 under our 30 days. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Ringo Light is our own data eSIM, sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Turkey it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $12.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $21.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $12.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
A plan over $10 makes you a Ringo Pioneer with €5 off the full Ringo at launch. The card to buy it is just below this article.
A weekend or a long weekend in Istanbul. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $11.50. Ringo Light no longer sells 3 days; its 2 weeks is $12.99 if the trip might run longer.
A week on the coast, phone only, no counting. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $12.99, less than any rival charges for one week. Holafly at $27.50 if you want a stated no-cap plan for heavy streaming.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ringo Light 2 weeks at $12.99, starting with 10 GB, or Nomad or Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $13. Same money; ours has no speed cap, theirs lasts longer.
A month, laptop on the hotspot. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $21.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $12.99, or Ubigi at $64 if you want its stated 5 GB a day at full speed.
You need your own number to keep ringing. None of these travel plans does that. The full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have.
For a week or more of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 for 30 days on 26 September 2026, against $24.50 for 7 days and $69 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo at $11.50. For a 10 GB bucket that lasts 30 days, Nomad and Ubigi at $13.
Ringo Light is the cheapest for 2 weeks and for 30 days, with no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone; Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily and Ubigi after 5 GB, Nomad after 2 GB.
Yes. Its Merhaba plan rides Türk Telekom with 5G, sells buckets from $4 for 1 GB and unlimited from $11.50 for 3 days, and can be topped up in the app.
Yes, on hotel Wi-Fi, except at Ubigi, whose app and site do not open from inside Turkey. Ringo Light, Airalo, Holafly, Saily and Nomad all deliver by email or app within minutes.
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